The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders,
COMPRISING
1st Batt. (formerly) The 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment.
2nd Batt. Authorised; with Militia Battalion.
3rd Batt. The Highland Light Infantry Militia.
The Thistle and Crown. The Sphinx.
TITLES.
1759-64. The 79th Regiment of Foot.
1778-84. The 79th (Royal Liverpool Volunteers) Regiment of Foot; also The Liverpool Blues; disbanded.
1793-1804. The 79th (Highland—Cameronian Volunteers) Regiment.
1804-73. The 79th (Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot.
1873-81. The 79th (Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment.
1881 (from). The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours.
1762. Manilla.
1783. Carnatic.
1794-95. Flanders.
1794. Nimeguen.
*1799. Egmont-op-Zee.
1800. Quiberon.
1800. Ferrol.
1800. Vigo.
1800. Cadiz.
1801. Mandora.
1801. Egypt.
1801. Alexandria.
1807. Copenhagen.
*1808-14. Peninsula.
1809. Corunna.
1809. Flushing.
1810. Cadiz.
1810. Busaco.
*1811. Fuentes d'Onor.
*1812. Salamanca.
1812. Burgos.
*1813. Pyrenees.
*1813. Nivelle.
*1813. Nive.
*1814. Toulouse.
1815. Quatre Bras.
*1815. Waterloo.
1815. Netherlands.
*1854. Alma.
1854. Balaclava.
*1855. Sevastopol.
1858. Indian Mutiny.
*1858. Lucknow.
1874. Ashantee.
*1882. Egypt.
*1882. Tel-el-Kebir.
*1884-85. Nile.
*1898. Atbara.
*1899. Khartoum.
Uniform.—Scarlet with Green facings (1793-1873); Scarlet with Blue facings (from 1873).
Regimental and other Badges.—"The Thistle ensigned with the Imperial Crown" (with the change of title in 1873). "The Sphinx" for "Egypt," (1801).
Notes.—This is the sole Territorial Regiment having one line battalion only.
Bibliography.—Historical Records of the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. By Captain Mackenzie, Lieutenant Ewart, and Lieutenant Findlay. [Devonport: Swiss. 1887.]
Some Account of the Part Taken by the 79th Regiment, or Cameron Highlanders, in the Indian Mutiny, 1858. By Captain D. Dunberley. [Inverness, 1891.]